Name 4 or 5 words, of which one of them does not have a characteristic of the others in common. In your turn, name the previous “odd man out”, state how it is diffeent from the others, and submit a new group which has an odd man out…
Example:
Argon, Kryton, Boron, Neon, Xenon, .
The odd man out is Boron, an element which is not a Noble gas.
The respondent doesn’t necessarily have to name the characteristic the poser has in mind, nor even choose the poser’s intended man out, but does need to justify the selection. (If for any reason Ive overlooked a glaring defect in this layout, someone please amend the rules as necessary.)
Odessa is the only one that’s not the capital city of its country.
iron
rumor
cloud
fish
For future questions, do they have to be just a single word? I have some questions of this form where the clues are people. And it would be nice to have to poster come in and confirm whether an answer is correct; you can usually justify any answer in some way (‘iron’ is the only one that starts with a vowel) that’s obviously trivial to what the question is about.
Whatever works that doesn’t disrupt the spirit of the thing. Things, people,ideas, places, symbols, numbers,words, phrases, anything you can fit on a short line.
“Rumor” is rumored to be a verb, conjugated as a verb…
Aluminum is the only one whose atomic number is prime. (Only one that’s an odd number, in fact, but I’d be a bit surprised if either of those is the answer you were looking for.)
George Lazenby
Pope Pius XII
Conan O’Brien
Benjamin Harrison
Probably stupidly hard, my trivia questions usually are.
I can offer one hint; the odd man out could be just about anybody, I could have pulled that name out of a hat. The other three share something unusual; so unusual that there aren’t many other names I could have used.
So, no, actually, that answer was wrong. If there’s a Boston in Eurasia, it wasn’t the one I intended. I’ll hold back the answer so I can play it again, though.
Although, FWIW, Vancouver* is *the correct answer, so there’s a hint for you.
Jethro Tull
Metallica
Nine Inch Nails
Queensrÿche
Soundgarden
Queensrÿche is the only one that used to be known by another name.
George Lazenby
Pope Pius XII
Conan O’Brien
Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison is the odd man out. The others, just when it seemed they were finding success, suddenly hit the bottoms of their careers, but mostly serendipitously, got back on their feet, and ended up doing really, really well.
Beijing
Boston
Llasa
Manchester
Naples
Vancouver
Weimer
HINTS: Boston is the city in Massachusetts; Vancouver is the correct answer; Beijing used to go by a variant name among English speakers.
More polite is to say it wasn’t the* intended* answer. Let me try again:
Pekingese, Boston Terrier, Lhasa Apso, Manchester Terrier, Neapolitan Mastiff, Weimaraner are breeds of dog but Vancouver doesn’t relate to any dog breed name.
It wasn’t intended if it was otherwise correct. It was wrong if it contained an error, like placing Boston in Eurasia.
Anyway, you got it. I hope my other answers were right-- or* intended*. I don’t believe I committed any factual error, like leaving out the word “transitive” my first time around (I’m also having trouble coming up with a non passive voice construction for “rumored,” but that’s probably my failing).
Let me try again: